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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:43:51 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel panic with firewire PCI card
Message-ID:  <20090330194350.GA2097@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <oqmyb4uxek.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
References:  <49CD39B7.3050500@nexus-ag.com> <20090328214138.GA93149@alchemy.franken.de> <oqmyb4uxek.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:05:55PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "ms" == Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> writes:
> 
>     ms> In theory there are some ways one can make them
>     ms> work anyway but that would be quite some work to do if at all
>     ms> feasible.
> 
> see uvesafb in linux for possible starting point

This is one of the approaches I meant, with the XFree86/X.Org
int10 module being a similar one but with a way less problematic
license. Anyway, getting non-FCode/Sun graphics cards to work
would be lots of work IMO better spent on improving the support
for the "native" cards.

Marius




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